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The Correlated Color Temperature (CCT) is often used to represent chromaticity of white light sources, but chromaticity is two-dimensional, and another...
Christopher C. White, Kar T. Tan, Donald L. Hunston, Adam L. Pintar, James J. Filliben
Recently a statistically based model has been created to predict the change in modulus for a sealant exposed to outdoor weathering. The underlying high...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed the NIST Ballistics Identification System (NBIS) based on three-dimensional (3D)...
The Ontology Summit 2012 explored the current and potential uses of ontology, its methods and paradigms, in big systems and big data: How ontology can be used...
Meiyao Wang, Yang Shen, Illarion Turko, Daniel Nelson, Shuwei Li
Carbapenems are broad spectrum antibiotics considered as last resort drugs to treat bacterial infections. Carbapenem-hydrolyzing β-lactamases (also called...
Paul A. Williams, Joshua A. Hadler, Robert Lee, Frank Maring, John H. Lehman
We demonstrate a paradigm in absolute laser radiometry where a laser beam's power can be measured from its radiation pressure. Using an off-the-shelf high...
Kevin J. Coakley, Dominic F. Vecchia, Daniel S. Hussey, David L. Jacobson
At the NIST Neutron Imaging Facility, we collect neutron projection data for both the dry and wet states of a Proton-Exchange-Membrane (PEM) fuel cell...
Shonali Nazare, William M. Pitts, Shaun M. Flynn, John R. Shields, Rick D. Davis
The purpose of fire blocking barrier materials is to reduce the flammability of soft furnishings ( mattresses and upholstered furniture) by preventing or...
John L. Molloy, Julian Malherbe, Fanny Claverie, Beatriz Fernandez, Aitor Alvarez-Toral, Alfredo Sanz-Medel, Rosario Pereiro
In recent years particular effort is being devoted to the development of pulsed glow discharges (PGDs) for mass spectrometry because this powering operation...
We study downsampling of optical frequency combs by way of pulse gating to enable efficient spectral broadening and f-2f interferometry. We downsample a 250 MHz...
Robert F. Sekerka, William J. Boettinger, Geoffrey B. McFadden
We examine the possibility that hillock growth of Sn coatings on Cu substrates is related to grain boundary fluxes caused by biaxial compressive stresses. We...
Distributed mesh sensor networks provide cost-effective communications for deployment in various smart grid domains, such as home area networks (HAN)...
Diamond sensors are evaluated as incident beam monitors for X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy experiments. These single crystal devices pose a challenge for an...
Graphical representations are presented for variation along the steepest-descent internal-rotation path in methanol of the normal mode frequencies and their...
Stephen E. Stein, Paul A. Rudnick, Scott J. Walmsley, Qian Dong, Alexey I. Nesvizhskii, Yuxue Liang
Trypsin is an endoprotease commonly used for sample preparation in proteomics experiments. Importantly, protein digestion is dependent on multiple factors...
Nicholas James Clark, Hailiang Zhang, Susan T. Krueger, Hyo Jin Lee, Randy R. Ketchem, Bruce Kerwin, Sekhar R. Kanapuram, Michael J. Treuheit, Arnold McAuley, Joseph E. Curtis
Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) contain hinge-like regions of structural flexibility that enable the mobility of globular domains that have direct effect on...
A. Alberca, N. M. Nemes, F. J. Mompean, Titusz Feher, Ferenc Simon, J. Tornos, C. Leon, C. Munuera, Brian Kirby, M. R. Fitzsimmons, A. Hernando, J. Santamaria, M. Garcia-Hernandez
The magnetism of La 0.7Ca 0.3MnO 3 (LCMO) expitaxial thin films grown SrTi 3 (STO)and BaTiO 3 (BTO) substrates is studied using Polarized Neutron Reflectometry...
Casey Charvet, Aicha Saadane, Meiyao M. Wang, Robert Salomon, Henri Brunengraber, Christine Curcio, Illarion Turko, Irina Pikuleva
The benefits of antioxidant therapy for treating age-related macular degeneration, a devastating retinal disease, are limited. Perhaps species other than...
P. Jonsson, P. Bengtsson, J. Ekman, S. Gustafsson, L. B. Karlsson, G. Gaigalas, D. Kato, Charlotte F. Fischer, I. Murakami, H. A. Sakaue, H. Hara, T. Watanabe, N. Nakamura, N. Yamamoto
Energies, E1, M1, E2, M2 transition rates, oscillator strengths, and lifetimes from relativistic configuration interaction calculations are reported for the...
Kyung Jin Lee, Mark D. Stiles, Hyun-Woo Lee, Jung-Hwan Moon, Kyoung-Whan Kim, Seo--Won Lee
A spin-polarized current transfers its spin-angular momentum to a local magnetization, exciting various types of current-induced magnetization dynamics. So far...
Charlotte F. Fischer, S. Verdebout, Michel Godefroid, P. Rynkun, P. Jonsson, G. Gaigalas
No lines have been observed for transitions between the doublet and quartet levels of B i. Consequently,energy levels based on observation for the latter are...
How does one inspect terabyte-sized 3D images visually from multiple viewpoints? The current solutions are limited to gigabyte-sized images using specialized...
Kevin M. Kiesler, Michael D. Coble, Thomas Hall, Peter Vallone
A set of 711 samples from four U.S. population groups was analyzed using a novel mass spectrometry based method for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) base composition...
Riaz Ahmad, John K. Brennan, Kevin A. Frankel, Jonathan D. Moore, Joshua D. Moore, Raymond D. Mountain, Richard B. Ross, Vincent K. Shen, Nathan E. Schultz, Daniel Siderius, Kenneth D. Smith, Matthias Thommes
The primary goal of the seventy industrial fluid properties simulation challenge was to test the ability of molecular simulation methods to predict the...
Catherine A. Remley, Saeed Farsi, Bart Nauwelaers, Dominique Schreurs
A dithering technique based on ensemble averaging of waveforms is proposed. In the proposed method, instead of performing several measurements with different...
We use atomistic tight-binding theory with a configuration interaction description of Coulomb and exchange effects to describe excitons in quantum dots in a...
J.H. Roh, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, T. E. Hogan, C. M. Roland
The nature of the interactions of polymers at the surface of nanoparticles is crucial to understanding the dynamics and their effect on the mechanical...
Igor de la Varga, Robert Spragg, Carmelo di Bella, Javier Castro, Dale P. Bentz, Jason Weiss
The transport of fluid and ions in concrete mixtures is central to many aspects of concrete deterioration. As a result, transport properties are frequently...